GRAMMAR er Mis ACTIVITIES Peter Watcyn-JonesAP AD AP AE AD AY MP QD QP dt) MY MS YAY YY Contents Introduction v Part 1 Teacher’s riotes 1 Part 2 Material for photocopying 27 Aatiity Level" Page | Activity Level” Page Find someone activities Asking and answering questions 1 Find someone who...1 VA 29 | activities 2 Find someone who...2 E 31 | Questions with short Yes/No answers 3 Find someone who... vA 32 | 24 Yes/No questions 1 E 58 4 Isit true or false’ q 33 | 25 Yes/No questions 2 E 59 5 Find out likes and dislikes I 34 | 26 YeerNo questions 3 E 0 6 Trivia search vA 35. | 27 Yes/No questions 4 BL 61 7 Group opinions vA 36 Bingo activities Role-plays and simulations 8 Wha's the time bingo 28 Things we are going to do vA e (Teacher's board) E 37 | 99 Asking and answering questions (Students’ cards) E 40 about photographs vA 8 9 Irregular verbs bingo 30 My first love VA 64 (Teacher's board) El 37 | 31 Answering an advertisement I 65 (Students’ cards) EA 41 | 32. Group role play 1 66 10 Telephone number bingo (Teacher's board) E 38 | other question and answer activities (Students’ cards) 42 | 33 Getting to know you 1 EI 68 11. Prepositions bingo Fi 34 Getting to know you 2 vA o (Teacher's board) 1 38 5 ¥ ; 35. Ask the right question vA 0 (Students’ cards) I 48 |e ene na a fi 12 Conjunctions bingo Came (Feacher’s board) vA 39 (Students" cards) vA 44 | Information-gap activities 37 What are the missing numbers? E n Jigsaw reading activities. 38 What are the missing dates? = E B ; . 45. | 39 Four people E 1% 13 Broken sentences 40 A day in the life of 14 Broken sentences 2 I 46 fae Witsoe 5 6 15 Broken sentences 3 I 47 | 41 Biographies UA 8 16 Broken sentences 4 VA 48 | oo Wen tret! I 80 17 Broken sentences 5 VA 50 | 43 Holiday plans as ea 18 Broken sentences 6 EA 52 | 44 A family wee I 84 19 Sort out the sentences 1 1 53. | 45 Mrs Green's fruit & vegetable 20 Sort out the sentences 2 I 3 aaa I 85 a Figsaw reading | eA 54 | 46 Half a crossword: jigsaw reading 2: Irregular verb E 86 Sort out the two jokes vA 55 hid * 23 Jigsaw reading 3 i 57 | Find the differences activities 47 Find the differences 1 E 88 48 Find the differences 2 I 90 | 49 Find the differences 3 I 2 *Bselementary I: intermediate A: advanced AllContents Activity Lever” Page | Activity Level” Page 50 Find the differences 4 1 94 | 83 Making comparisons/Finding similarities and differences I 149 Questionnaires and surveys 84 Give an answer 1 I 150 51 Habits questionnaire EB 96 | 85 Give an answer 2 I 150 52 Group interviews I 9g | 86 The memory game 1 1 152 53 How often do you do it? I 101 | 87 The memory game 2 I 153 ‘54 Likes and dislikes questionnaire E/I_ 103 | 88 What does it mean? : = 55 Asking about likes and dislikes I 104 | 89 Explain yourself A 157 56 What sortof a person are you? VA 105 57 Have you ever...? I 108 | Miscellaneous activities ‘58 What do you think? VA 109 | 90 Complete the sentences 1 EL 1S8 91 Complete the sentences 2 VA 159 Giving and receiving instructions 92 Complete the sentences 3 VA 160 activities 93 Complete the sentences 4 VA 161 —— 94 Right word, wrong place 1 E 162 3 a you follow instructions? —_E/L 10 | 95 Right word, wrong place 2 VA 162 ‘omplete the drawing I im 61 Up, down, left, right | E 112. | 96 Right or wrong 1 . 1 Ca ee 97 Right or wrong 2 I 164 62. Up, down, left, right 2 E 14 s 63 Taking a group photograph VA 116 | 28 Rightor wrong 3 A aS ig & group photograpt 64 Arrange the furniture 1 1 117 | S2Alifehistory im 65 Arrange the furniture 2 VA 129 | 100 Looking after foreign visitors. = VA 168 101 What's the question? 1 E 169 66 The adverb game I 122 | 1 Waves a ' os 67 Trace the route 1 124 ee ane 68 The audition A 126 | 103 Rank order 1: What are you afraid of? I m 104 Rank order 2: Board and card games, sto. What really annoys you? 1 m Numbers 1-20 128} 105 Rank order 3: 69 20-square |: Make up a sentence A 129 What makes a successful 70 20-square 2: marriage? VA 173 What do you remember? A 130. | 106 Can it be true? I 174 71 20-square 3: 107 Fill in the missing prepositions I 175 Complete the sentences A 131 | 108 Sort out the text I 176 72. Four-in-a-row: verbs E 132. | 109 Twenty questions I 7 73. Four-in-a-row: Prepositions 110 Place the adjectives A 178 (after adjectives/verbs) VA 133 | 111 Place the adverbs I 179 4 The preposition game I 135 | 112 Superiaives vA 180 75 Ask and tell game vA 137 | 113 Fill in the missing words I 182. 16 Preposition dominoes VA 140 | 114 Fill in the missing verbs 1 183 77 What a question! VA 141 | 115 This is the news VA 184 Teacher-led activities Index to structures used 185 78 Countable and uncountable nouns 1 EA 142 79 Countable and uncountable nouns 2 1 143 80 Complete the story 1 VA 144 81 Complete the story 2 VA 146 82. Make up story I 148 iv elementary I: intermediate A: advanced All RAUVUMDMOMnnMMmnMMManMMMinmnmenan = = = = a JWadd deed deeded edu deere Introduction Grammar Games and Activities is the second book in a series of source book for teachers. It contains a collection of 120 activities for practising and revising grammar. They range from elementary to advanced activities, all of which contain material to be photocopied. Itis, hoped they will prove useful in general courses to give extra practice in grammar. ‘The choice of which grammatical items to include in the book is largely subjective, with the emphasis on those most frequently encountered — in particular asking and answering questions in various tenses. There are bound to be omissions, but it is hoped that there are enough basic ideas in this book to encourage and stimulate teachers to devise their own activities for any grammatical items that have been left out ‘Most of the activities in this book involve the students working in pairs or groups. Apart from making the learning process more dynamic and enjoyable it may also help make a traditionally serious subject like grammar more “user friendly”. ‘The majority of the ideas in this book are based on ideas I first used while teaching in ‘Scandinavia. There is always, however, the problem of knowing who came up with a particu- lar idea first. Where T have consciously used someone else's idea T have of course acknow- edged this. In other cases where I have devised an activity which someone else feels he or she can lay prior claim to then I apologize and will gladly make the appropriate acknow!- edgement in future editions of this book. The organisation of this book ‘The activities have not been grouped according to grammatical structures. Instead I decided to group them according to types of activities. Altogether there are eleven sections: Find someone activities, Bingo activities, Jigsaw reading activities, Asking and answering ques- tions activities, Information-gap activities, Find the differences activities, Questionnaires and surveys, Giving and receiving instructions activities, Board and card games, etc. Teacher-led activities, and Miscellaneous activities. Part 1 of the book gives detailed teach- cer's notes for each activity while Part 2 contains the various cards, handouts, etc. to be photocopied. ‘Where possible, the material to be photocopied has been arranged in such a way that it also serves as an instant key to the majority of the activities. For example, in the jigsaw reading activities the broken sentences are arranged on the page in the correct order. Itis therefore important to remember to shuffle the cards prior to handing them out to the students. Where a key is not obvious from the layout, a separate key is included in the teacher's notes. Classroom organisation Although class sizes vary considerably, the book assumes an average class size of 10-20 students. Where possible, the classroom should be physically rearranged to facilitate work- ing in pairs or groups. However, should this not be possible, even the more traditional front- facing rows of desks can be easily adapted for pair work and group work. For pair work, students can either work with the person sitting next to them or the person in front of or behind them. For group work, two students can easily tum their chairs round to face two others behind them. Where you have an uneven number of students in the class, most pair ‘work activities can be done by three people (if necessary, two students against one).